Freeze Dried 2009 South Dakota Polkafest

Sioux Fall 2009 South Dakota Polkafest was an interesting experience. There were 9 bands playing in a big exhibit hall at the fairgrounds. There were favorites that we had heard before and new favorites that showed their talents.

Great peppy mid-west dancers filled the floors, kicking up wood dust from the newly laid floors. At first the floors were so slick we wore our rubber soled shoes.

We met people from all over the country; South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas Arizona, and about 16 of us from Colorado.



Freeze Dried from Chicago had a new sound to me. Maybe it was the Raspberry Accordion with the black keys that caught my eye or the young bass player with the Led Zeppelin T-shirt. In their second set when they brought out three singers with contagious smiles and big voices the crowd went wild. Even Stan, who likes what he likes and is pretty much waiting to find a style, tempo and sound from his childhood Polish polka music, was up from his seat crowding toward the band clapping and cheering. Freeze Dried has an innovative method to bring Polka beat into the next century with youthful vibrance. I felt I was experiencing the birth of music in the making.

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